Frontier Airlines Offers $15 Fares Out Of Dulles

An Airbus A318 with the logo of US company Frontier Airlines is seen on the tarmac of Hamburg Finkernwerder airport 22 July 2003. European aircraft maker Airbus announced 22 July that it had delivered its first 114-seater A318 commercial jet liner to the US company and will deliver four other A318s, part of the A320 family and priced at around 50 million euros, to Frontier by the end of 2004. (Photo credit should read JOERN POLLEX/AFP/Getty Images)(Photo credit: JOERN POLLEX/AFP/Getty Images)

UPDATED: May 13, 2014 3:01 p.m.

LANHAM, Md. (WNEW) — Frontier Airlines is beginning service to and from Dulles International Airport and is offering $15 fares during a 12-hour sale Tuesday.

The discounted fares are available for one-way, non-stop flights to 14 U.S. cities, including Chicago, Atlanta, Detroit, Orlando and Las Vegas. The other cities offered in the sale are Charlotte, Cincinnati, Fort Lauderdale, Fort Myers, Memphis, Minneapolis/St. Paul, St. Augustine/Jacksonville, St. Louis, and Tampa Bay.

The only catch is tickets must be purchased by 11:59 p.m. Tuesday and used before Nov. 19. The $15 ticket price includes all taxes and fees, but doesn’t include additional charges for bags and seat assignments.

A few hours after the sale began, Frontier acknowledged that their website was struggling to keep up with the high demand for the cheap tickets.

“We are aware of the website issues and are working to fix them as quickly as possible, a spokesperson said. “Following our announcement at IAD, we’ve seen very high volumes of website traffic today.”

The Denver-based airline will start flying out of Dulles on Aug. 19, but service to certain cities will begin later.